[1] In the 1930s, when Armenia belonged to the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Richard Jeranian went into exile in France.

Interested in art and music, he began his studies in Marseille where the landscapes of Provence inspired him, he pursued his studies in Paris at the Académie Julian and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

[2] After the war, being closely connected with artists from the Armenian diaspora, he traveled and exhibited in Lebanon, Soviet Russia and Iran, he also visited his native land in connection with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation efforts in support of Armenia.

During the 1998 earthquake, he participated with other artists in donations for the creation of a children hospital after the disaster.

[3][4] The style of his works evolved, going through figurative, surrealist, cubist or abstract periods covering the themes of music, woman and Armenia through figures, landscapes, genre scenes or still lifes in oil and ink.